Mark Webster Reading Series: Malia Maxwell and Rebecca Hawkes

Organized by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Mark Webster Reading Series showcases the work of second-year MFA students in fiction and poetry.

Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom. 

Malia Maxwell (Kanaka Maoli) is a writer from Seattle, WA. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Poetry Northwest, No Tokens, Frozen Sea, and elsewhere. Visit her at www.maliamaxwell.com. 

Rebecca Hawkes is a painter-poet from rural Aotearoa / New Zealand. Her book Meat Lovers was awarded Best First International Collection in the UK Poet Laureate’s 2022 Laurel Prize, and shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award. She is an editor of Sweet Mammalian and the Pacific climate crisis poetics anthology No Other Place To Stand. Her work can be found in the likes of  Salt Hill, Hobart, and Cordite, or via her vanity www.rebeccahawkesart.com.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      This series is free and open to the public. For questions, accommodation needs, or the password, please contact co-hosts, Rebecca Hawkes (hawkes@umich.edu) and Malia Maxwell (maliacm@umich.edu)